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Eighteenth-Century Female Voices: Education and the Novel

Eighteenth-Century Female Voices: Education and the Novel

Augustin-Bech, Sabine
Klooß, Wolfgang

Paperback

Series: Trierer Studien Zur Literatur, Book 42

English as a Second LanguageLiterary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3631529147
ISBN13: 9783631529140
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 18 2005
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This work focuses on the issue of women's education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous subversive narrative techniques undermine the surface stories, drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for personal freedom, these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society.

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